A Certain Tendency Of The Database Community —
“We posit that striving for distributed systems that provide ‘single system image’ semantics is fundamentally flawed and at odds with how systems operate in the physical world.”

gpdb: Pivotal Greenplum Database —
Greenplum, a massively parallel processing database, is one of many databases that started with Postgres then built on top of it. It’s now fully open source.

Pivotal code

Top 10 Most Common T-SQL Database Scripts —
What are the scripts that a working DBA uses so often that they become part of the ‘muscle memory’? Grant Fritchey asked the question on the forums of SQL Server Central.